Cera
Cera was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,138 among girls’ names; 1,410 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,390 Americans named Cera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cera?
#11,138 among girls’ names, 2025
Cera fell from #10,286 in 2015 to #11,138 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 5.0 per million.
98 babies in 1995, the peak
Cera peaked in 1995, when 98 girls were given it, #1,547 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,138 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,327 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,404 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,785 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,827 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,435 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,021 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,284 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,906 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,670 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,286 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,058 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,836 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,156 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,911 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,270 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,833 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,675 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,124 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,806 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,282 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,835 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,362 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,154 | 25.0 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,427 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,480 | 33.6 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,439 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,868 | 46.4 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,929 | 43.1 |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,153 | 35.9 |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,547 | 55.7 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,207 | 33.6 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,536 | 27.1 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,388 | 29.3 |
| 1991 | 56 | #2,292 | 29.9 |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,714 | 44.8 |
| 1989 | 60 | #2,074 | 32.5 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,712 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,463 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,814 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,477 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,409 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,587 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,878 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,162 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cera, and how old are they?
1,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,410 Americans ever recorded as Cera. The median Cera alive today is 28 years old; half are between 21 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,349 people named Cera (1,338 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,352 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 593 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 127 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cera born?
The states with the most babies named Cera are California, Texas and Illinois, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 123 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 89 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cera with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 79,504 babies since 1880, Cera is the sixth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 512 babies (1.6%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cera
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cera and names like it
- Compare Cera and KeiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCera peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cera since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Cera.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cera alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.